Format for the League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) North American Qualifier

With the online qualifiers concluding last weekend, we are nearly ready for the League of Legends Championship Series North American Qualifier to start up this weekend, Jan 11th through the 13th. In preparation, RiotMarcou dropped off a post detailing the format for the event.

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Here is the full post from RiotMarcou, eSports Manager:

"Summoners!

We’re modifying the tournament format for the League of Legends
Championship Series (LCS) North American Qualifier on Jan. 11-13.

Day 1

We’re not using a round-robin format on Day 1

This avoids the need for a tiebreaker formula or a lengthy tiebreaker playoff

Instead, we’ll run a “dual” tournament (a type of group play popularized in Korea)

>In this format, each group of four teams will play until each team has either won twice or lost twice.

Matches on this day will be best of 1 game

Day 2

The first-place team from each of the four groups will face one
of the second-place teams from a different group in a best-of-3 game
series